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Title: Weetzie Bat (10th Anniversary Edition) by Francesca Lia Block ISBN: 0-06-440818-3 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 30 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (87 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Way over-rated.
Comment: Supposedly this book is transcendant, according to the quote from the New York Times on the back. I do agree that it's original, which is about the only good thing I can say about it.
I think it's trying to be all stylistic and symbolic and thereby meaningful, but it just ends up as far too stupid and simplistic. I wasn't moved; I was annoyed.
Rating: 5
Summary: Punk rockers grow up too fast these days...
Comment: I found this book as I was cleaning my ex-girlfriend's stuff from our apartment, and I had nothing better to do, so I sat down in the sun and read it. I generally can't finish any novel of substantial length in less that a week or two. This took me about two hours. Seeing as it's very short, and printed quite large, and simply written, you can see I don't read very fast.
This book is utterly charming, like a children's story that sticks with you after you've grown up. It's not a children's story at all, covering the after-high school life of four punk teenagers in Los Angeles, but it has the same clear, precise language of Peter Pan.
Weetzie Bat is a punk rock pixie who meets Dirk, a gay boy with a mohawk. They hang out together and enjoy Charlie Chaplin movies and roller skating, and long to meet their true loves. These show up in the form of Duck (for Dirk) and My Secret Agent Lover Man (for Weetzie). Some strange things happen, some babies are born, and the AIDS virus rears its ugly head.
It's deceptively simple. But, even Peter Pan is only simple because there was an animated movie made out of it. On the surface it's a children's book, written for children; but once you read it you'll find as much depth and reality as anything on the bestseller shelf.
Rating: 5
Summary: stratopheric
Comment: if glitter and moonlight turned into words, the writer of those word would be francessca lia block. every girl between the ages of 14 and 92 should own a copy of this book.
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Title: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson ISBN: 014131088X Publisher: Speak Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier ISBN: 0440944597 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 15 April, 1975 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block ISBN: 0064470652 Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: 30 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Skellig by David Almond ISBN: 0440416027 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: From Romance to Realism: 50 Years of Growth and Change in Young Adult Literature by Michael Cart ISBN: 0064461610 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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